Don’t let McCain fool you again

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1. By tokaloshe

   Oct. 12, 2008

   7:35 a.m.

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   Pam,
   I love your keen ability to sort fact from fiction, you would make an excellent juror on a murder trial, looks as though you could sense the truth by looking at the whites of their eyes.
   Thanks for spotting that freudian slip the rest of us were nearly fooled.

2. By neiman1

   Oct. 12, 2008

   9:45 a.m.

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   Here is how you tell who is lying. Watch Obama in his own words promise ACORN to let them shape the next administration even before his inaguration. Obama's web site still denies Obama worked for ACORN and denies Obama's campaign has ACORN involved in his election. Why did Obama pay ACORN over $800,000 for election work this year? Here are Obama's own words on video.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhN...

3. By gunowners4obama

   Oct. 12, 2008

   10:07 a.m.

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   It started with news of disenfranchising Michigan voters who had lost their homes. Now here are some of the current Republican tactics:

   * Misinforming college students about their right to vote.

   * So-called "voter caging."

   * Sending mailers that mislead voters with the wrong information about
   polling places, absentee ballots or voting requirements.

   * Discriminatory voter challenges.

   * Using lists of home foreclosures to challenge voters.

   We are watching. We are spreading the word. And we intend to fight to make every vote count.

   (Please add your name by filling out the form at the right.)

   More on vote suppression

   We've received reports of vote suppression tactics from nearly every battleground state, including:

   * In Colorado and other states, election officials are purging voter lists in apparent violation of federal law.

   * In Colorado, the El Paso County clerk's office misled Colorado College students into thinking they were ineligible to vote.

   * In Virginia, Republican officials have spread similar misinformation among college students about their rights to vote.

   * In Florida, a piece mailed to state Democrats, paid for by the Republican National Committee and authorized by Sen. McCain, says "We have you registered as a Republican" and includes a fake registration number.

   * Also in Florida, election law changes could lead to massive Election Day challenges, earning the state the dishonor of being named "the most hostile state in the nation for new voters" by three voting rights groups.

   * In Wisconsin, J.B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin's attorney general and state co-chair of John McCain's campaign, has filed a lawsuit that threatens to toss thousands of newly registered (and legitimate) voters off the rolls before Election Day.

   * In several states, the McCain campaign has sent voters absentee ballot requests addressed to the wrong election officials.

   * In many states, officials are conducting arbitrary purges of legitimate voters that are "vulnerable to manipulation" according to independent studies.

   source: http://www.progressivefuture.org/voter-s...

   These were also some tactics mentioned on a "Fresh Air" radio show this past week on NPR.

   Some Republicans don't seem to understand that reputable news outlets check their facts. When those who know the most about what's going on - reputable journalists - report facts, that's not bias. It only seems like it to you because there's so much negative to report about Republicans. These election-rigging tactics are yet another example.

4. By tokaloshe

   Oct. 12, 2008

   12:13 p.m.

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   I agree Pam, all of these mcmansions, fancy cars and rampant spending has been nothing but a mirage, everyone has actually been suffering, now government you listen and you listen good, I NEED MONEY i am sick and tired of suffering and not being able to get haircuts, I WANT NICE VACATIONS AND FANCY RESTAURANTS!!!!
   Obama. you look like a chosen one, get over here and get me what i want, i want my house back and a new credit card, and other stuff too.....
   ohhhh ooooobama you are my hero go get that money from those rich business owners and bring it to me, my vote is only a thousand obama, go get me some more.......thank yooooo oooobama my greeeed knows no boundaries end my suffering chosen one.

5. By tokaloshe

   Oct. 12, 2008

   12:25 p.m.

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   Hi my name is barack obama, call me barry, now first thing i am gonna do is go after "big oil"
   you know who i'm talking about, i am going to get some money from big oil and i will give you each a thousand. spend it on whatever you want ok? I am going to bring change to this great country, even my wife michelle has decided she kinda likes it here too.
   This is so easy you americans are so0 stupid
   i cannot believe it, you don't want to know details about me at all, i have been hanging out with that convict rezko since college, ayers is moy buddy, acorn is a fraud group i worked for i gave them 800k, i give you a thousand and you'll make me president?
   what a cheap sale.

   I lie right to your face and you don't even care, it must be that messiah-like-glow i have about me.
   Thank you,

   Obama

6. By tokaloshe

   Oct. 12, 2008

   1:03 p.m.

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   (obama as a shamwow salesman)

   Folks are you tired of the same old towels,
   those expensive papertowels that make you promises and you keep buying them month after month. buy now and i will double your order
   right now though hurry up because we can't do this all day hurry hurry.........

7. By tokaloshe

   Oct. 12, 2008

   1:18 p.m.

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   Another crazed radical kook Obama was NOT friends with? "khalid al mansour"
   This guy is clearly a radical and he was helping Obama gain acceptance into Harvard, possibly raising money for Obama.
   This guy is Rev. Wright all over again. If Obama is worried about Ayers, his day just got a whole lot worse.
   "White people don't feel bad, whatever you do to them, they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that's when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don't worry because God wants you to do it."
   I did a little digging around and this story from 1990 gives a creepy peek inside the world of Mansour.
   The Islamic Propagation Centre International is renowned for its ceaseless and well-funded attacks on Christianity. IPCI founder, Ahmed Deedat, has produced such scandalous booklets as "50 000 Errors in the Bible", "Resurrection or Resuscitation", "Crucifixion or 'Cruci-Fic tion", and "The God That Never Was".
   However, while the IPCI is no stranger to blasphemy, slander, half-truths and outright lies, even they must have been embarrassed by their much-acclaimed international guest speaker -- Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour.
   A MUSLIM SUPREMIST
   As I attended their Wednesday, 24 October, rally in the Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, I was surprised by the extremism of Dr Al-Mansour. Seldom has it been my misfortune to endure such a loud illogical stream of venom from a public speaker. Al-Mansour must have been an embarrassment to all sane Muslims. Not that Christians don't have some similar fanatics disgracing our podiums with hysteria and unsubstantiated drivel. But this American Muslim (described as a Californian lawyer, banker, businessman and activist) went beyond all extremes in his outrageous statements.
   Al-Mansour claimed that Muslims were heirs to the greatest civilizations and achievements in history. Muslims had reached America before Columbus was born! The Zimbabwe Ruins had been built by Muslims, as had the Pyramids in Egypt.
   Read the rest, there's tons more of anti-everything except islam trickery. Assuming the source isn't kookery itself.
   Also an interesting nugget, Mansour sits on the board of the African Communications Agency. A few clicks around the site and Bill Clinton's face pops up, also a few Google searches of the other board members shares a pretty "outlandish" bunch of folks with checkered past in Africa.
   I already know Obama is dirtier than a pigs scratching post. It will be fun to watch the left dismiss yet another crazed America hating dirtbag in Obama's very crowded closet and characterize it as "right-wing hate."
   It's better than "left-wing stupidity" though.

8. By car_1

   Oct. 12, 2008

   2:27 p.m.

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   gunowners:

   Thanks for the link, did you bother to read the articles that 'progressivefuture' referenced? I did!! The second paragraph in the very first article states:

   "The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other, nor do they appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law, intended to overhaul the way elections are run."

   That statement doesn't fit your narrative or PF's so I am sure you ignored it. Some conspiracy the Republicans are perpetrating there, good catch...
   I will admit I couldn't go any further, I was to busy laughing. But I will later, I suggest you do to.

9. By car_1

   Oct. 12, 2008

   2:52 p.m.

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   gunny4obbey:

   'Voter Caging', oooohh scary. Just in time for Halloween.

   Given how ACORN registers voters, I for one have no problems challenging votes. Isn't it the democrats who even fight having someone prove who they are by way of an ID. I remember reading that a while back. How convenient.

   I remember back in 2000 Algore only wanted to challenge certain votes. So, once more, what's the big deal?